The 2025 December Auction - Sale 346 (December 13 - December 16, 2025)
Sale 346
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featuring opera scenes, calendar poster–style advertisements, propaganda art, and modern portraits.
featuring Hualan Brand Cigarettes, Dou An’s Secret Kidney Pills, and a Candy & Chocolate Factory. Each piece showcases distinctive design elements and vibrant colors characteristic of Republican-era Shanghai commercial art, offering valuable insight into the city’s advertising culture. Well-preserved and of significant historical and cultural interest.
made of used stamps pieces. Marked "Made in China" at backside. Interesting.
finely produced in color lithography with ornate gilt borders, combining postwar feminine elegance with contemporary “film star” style imagery.
all with captions. An interesting group. Please view.
including German “China Wein / China Bitter” liquor labels; 1956 Chinese calendar cards featuring Shanghai film actresses in elegant portrait poses; advertising posters with female portraits. A diverse group reflecting early 20th-century Sino-European commercial art and postwar popular culture.
in which a few are advertising cards. Most of the cards showing Dala Lama, Tashi Lama, Tibetan Lama, Tibetan Warrior, Officials, Native people, Mother and Children, Mountains and folklore, etc. Very difficult to collect. Viewing is highly recommended.
a group of 12 printed items on Shanghai’s expatriate life, including The Totem (1934), The China Builder (1928), Shanghai Rugby Union Football Club Report (1948–49), a Hungjao Golf Club rule sheet, a Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen brochure, architectural prints from The Building News, and a Christmas card from Hope & Lewis.
including three 1946 U.S. Department of the Interior concept views of the “Yangtze Gorge Dam” and one 1962 UPI press photo of the “Shankiang Dam.”
depicting city views, harbors, temples, schools, and street scenes. Many are color lithographs or early photographic issues. Publishers include early studios such as A.H. Pett & Co., Max Nössler, and Lai Chong (Amoy).
including views of Ling-Tow Jetty / Ling-Tow Sainghe Jetty, Eady Dispensary, and “Chinese Yi Tai Soldiers, Amoy” by Wm. Crampton; one color card postally used.
including views of Kushan Monastery, Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages, Foochow Bund and Customs House, Min River scenery, Foochow schools, “Chinese Female Singers and Musicians from Foochow,” and “Motor Boat on the Min”. Several with English or French captions, one postally used to Germany bearing Hong Kong 4c red tied.